Hegel’s Slave-Morality and Management Ethics

Thomas Klikauer

Chapter 6 in Critical Management Ethics, 2010, pp 105-125 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract One of Hegel’s core contributions to ethics, and to management ethics in particular, is his master-slave dialectics.160 The master-slave relationship of antiquity has changed several times. It moved from a relationship between lord and peasant during feudalism to one between worker and capitalist during liberal capitalism. Eventually it became known as today’s relationship between human resources/material and management. The names might have changed but the structure has remained the same. According to George Orwell (1949:210), from the point of view of the low, no historic change has ever meant much more than a change in the name of their masters. Therefore, the ethics of Hegel’s master-slave dialects continues to some extent inside today’s relationship between employee and management.

Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility; Virtue Ethic; Managerial Regime; Management Ethic; Ethical Life (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230281776_6

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